In a message dated 4/8/05 10:13:54 AM,
bradstevens22@hotmail.com writes:
> But the ending is only happy if seen from the
central character's
> perspective. Leonard is extremely critical of the
character. Most of
> Charles Willeford's novels end with their amoral
narrators emerging
> triumphant, and these are among the darkest noirs
ever written.
>
>
and I would call A Clockwork Orange noir, even though the
protagonist emerges triumphant at the end as well. when the
point of the novel is that if a man is inherently evil, but
the greater evil is to rob him of free will, that IMHO is
decidedly a noir point of view
John Lau
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